Mariemont Elementary School

Mr. Violette is a HORRIBLE teacher! He is constantly picking on and publicly belittling his students. This is unacceptable behavior for a teacher or any adult. If he was the parent, CPS would have removed his parenting rights. He should not be aloud to be around children!

Excellent school. Lots of teacher attention and talented and thoughtful staff. My son loves his school and starts 1^st grade in a few days… It’s a small campus in an older, established neighborhood so pick up and drop off can be difficult on the local side streets but other than that… If parking and streets were less congested I’d give it a 5 star!

So they diagnosed my son with a hearing issue stating this is what was wrong or it could even be something developmental like ADHD. He was retained in grade K after we believed he sincerely had some type of issue since he only scribbled on papers, couldn’t write well, wasn’t able to read or put words/​sounds together — albeit he is a genius in math. He counts up to 200 and is 5… I took him to our Native American clinic for a screening and his pediatrician who didn’t do his pre-​K screening (vision and hearing) noted he hears fine, doesn’t appear to have ADHD, and has a hard time seeing. I was shocked, a hard time seeing? They believed he was around ²⁰⁄₃₀ or ²⁰⁄₄₀ since he did poorly on the eye chart. Bless his pediatrician’s office because he could only ready the 40 and 50’s at the eye doctors without help, so they were very correct.
So he has poor vision in his left eye where he needs nearly a +3.00 lense and his right eye is overcompensating for the issue and is also weakened where he needs a +1.50 in that eye. With his glasses on he clearly writes his name and can color… because he can SEE!
Mariemont only wanted to blame some type of developmental issue or a hearing issue as his problem. I remember at one point being told the other kids had preschool and because he didn’t that might be the issue. I stated preschool was out of our budget and I was reminded that the neighborhood is wealthier so the kids go to preschool… So their kids were automatically seen as better because they were rich and white. You’d think someone in the process would have tested his eyesight if he had a problem reading. It seems so, DUH! now but I am a first time parent dealing with an uptight school but they do this everyday so there is no excuse.
I continue to state his teacher was awesome and did what he could but their administration and even other parents are the nightmare there. I am on the fence for him returning I can’t do to it him even though they are considered a «good school» they are not a good school for someone with a mixed ethnic background whose parents don’t net 100k+ a year.